Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Tomato Staking
I'm often the last to hear about a new resource, but just in case I'm not, here's a great book my mom recommended to me yesterday: Raising Godly Tomatoes. I read quite a bit and left hopeful that this season of intense discipline will be a lot shorter if I am absolutely faithful. I like the way she says it: You have to be consistent 100 times- IN A ROW. Not for the same thing necessarily, but I love the way she (and God's word) simplifies parenting. It is a huge task of training and loving souls and hearts, but it is not some mysterious complex process. (The mystery is not in the how-to, but that God uses such sinful, broken mothers like me.) The greatest appeal for me is her subtitle: Loving parenting with only occasional trips to the woodshed. That's what I long for...I'm off to stick close to my kids and be 100% consistent.
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I found her website one very desperate day. She was very inspiring to me and even since I started doing some of the things she suggested, we've had a major turn around. I still haven't figured out how to avoid some of the terrible two's behavior, but maybe it's not too late for Norah ;)
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